Sigrinn – in my line of sight

Den sydamerikanske författaren Paulo Coelho uppmanar läsarna av sin blogg att diskutera frågan “När ska man bryta mot reglerna?”
Det är en intressant diskussion att följa.

Ett av svaren Paulo får är:
“We break the rules when they no longer make sense to us.”

Det känns som att vi i Sverige är påväg till ett samhällsskick där vi får en massa lagar och regler som inte längre känns vettiga. Om medborgarna i ett land inte kan uppleva lagarna som vettiga – hur tror man då att dessa lagar ska kunna upprätthållas? Och för vem har man stiftat dessa lagar?

“To see a world in a grain of sand,
and heaven in a wildflower,
hold infinity in the palm of your hand
and eternity in an hour.”

~ William Blake

“You can always count on Americans to do the right thing – after they’ve tried everything else.”

~ Winston Churchill

Inte varje dag man får ett telefonsamtal från en granne som lyder:

- Hej, kan du komma över och hjälpa mig att ta på mig min tvångströja? Jag kan inte knäppa den själv…

“The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.”

~ Michelangelo (1475-1564)

more quotes from Michelangelo

Yet another quote from a Robin Hobb-book! But this one will be the last one for a while:

‘It’s that – no matter how far you go back, someone took the land from someone else. I don’t think anything can be solved by trying to work out who stole it first. The solution is in the future, Epiny, not the past.’

from Renegade’s Magic (page 183), book three of The Soldier Son Trilogy.

Read other posts where I quoted Robin Hobb here and here.

This time you’ll have a qoute from Paulo Coelho‘s book Veronika decides to die:

‘… You’re someone who is different, but who wants to be the same as everyone else. And that, in my view, is a serious illness.’
‘Is wanting to be different a serious illness?’
‘It is if you force yourself to be the same as everyone else: it causes neuroses, psychoses and paranoia…’

(page 153)

“It was as if he believed that if we took their culture away from them, they’d instantly convert to thinking like Gernians. As if our way of seeing the world were the only real one, and that anyone, given the opportunity, would think like we do.”

from the book Forest Mage (p. 782), book two in The Soldier Son trilogy by Robin Hobb

Read another qoute from this book.

Ligger förkyld efter jobbvecka som lägerledare. Då passar jag på att läsa:

“Do you believe that Gernians are the most important people in the world? Or do you think so only because you were born one? If you’d been born anywhere else, would you still think that you had a duty to protect the interest of Gernia, no matter what it cost other people?”

hämtat från boken Forest Mage (sid. 370), bok två i The Soldier Son trilogin av Robin Hobb (hon har en mysig hemsida, ta en titt på den här)

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“Everyone has a photographic memory, some just don’t have film.”

~ Steven Wright

* more guotes from Steven.
* see clips with Steven.